Blaue Blume

There can be no doubt that the members of the Danish alternative art pop band Blaue Blume are romantics. The four members have all recently turned 25, and it’s dif cult to be anything else at this age. The musicians are looking for miracles — and nd them in their own songs and the lyrics raises the eternal questions of love, life and death.

Blaue Blume could be called the successors of the New Romanticism, which was born in Great Britain 35 years ago as a reaction to the insolent and vulgarly simple punk music, which enthralled the youth. The New Ro- mantics, of which Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet proved to be the most successfully, were interested in everything that was complicated, intricate, ambivalent and inexpressible. Their performances were always dis- tinguished by some truly fantastic stage constumes.

The young Danish musicians, long-haired and thin- boned, brushed aside the peacock fashion sense of their British predecessors but paid very close attention to their albums. The delicate and vibrant music of Blaue Blume echoes the best British bands of the 1980s: from Talk Talk, The Smiths and Cocteau Twins. The as- tonishing androgynous falsetto of the band’s frontman Jonas Smith has been compared to the voice of Antony Hegarty (Anohni).

Still, the day and night hymns of Blaue Blume, which re- corded its debut album Syzygy in 2015, are suf ciently original. The young Danes record elegant pop songs with showy melodies and timbral experiments, have also been deservedly compared to the British veterans Wild Beasts and fellow countrymen Efterklang.

The band have created a real stir with its live perfor- mances at some of Europe’s largest festivals (Roskilde Festival, The Great Escape, Eurosonic) and they have been working in the studio most of 2016 and are now - nally ready to give the audience a glimpse into the world of Blaue Blume.

Press quotes:
“Jonas Smith’s vocal gymnastics are always going to be the star of the show but the rest of the band has developed its dream pop into unusual shapes and structures, meaning that even the most conventional of harmonies lead the audience down unlikely paths....the wheels are already well in motion for Blaue Blume and great things beckon.” (The Line of Best Fit)

“The Danish band specialise in ltering conventional sounds into a strange, eerie, but unerringly catchy mix- ture. Frontman Jonas Smith reps the falsetto like his life depends on it...” (DIY)